Archive for the 'The Media' Category


Ratings

We’re in the midst of a cultural shift.
A few years back, I became addicted to a Discovery Channel show about climbing Mt. Everest.  Discovery is channel 3 on my Time Warner system.  In fact, Discovery’s got great placement on all viewing systems.  Still, I could not find a single soul who’d seen the show until [...]

E-Mail Of The Day

From: Joe Weinstein    Subject: Re: The Millennium Trilogy
ha! i was just about to curse you for torturing me.  i read plays w fire a couple weeks ago while in southern thailand.  just yesterday i ran into a couple women from estonia who are staying at the same hotel as i in sri lanka.  one of [...]

The Oscars

Halfway through, I thought the show succeeded in its mission, it made me want to go to the movies, I suddenly had a desire to run out and see all the flicks I’d missed, not on DVD, but in a theatre, savoring the separate location and the darkness.
But by time the final credits ran, and [...]

The Millennium Trilogy

I just finished reading the Millennium Trilogy.
It wasn’t easy.  Richard Griffiths had to send me the "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest" from the U.K.  It was six hundred pages long.  But I savored every line.  As I was introduced to a new world that was eerily similar to my own.  Because, as Depeche [...]